Thousands of soldiers were sent to clean up the wreckage of the burned ship in the water and move the supplies from the grain ship until the next morning, when the Tang army finally found nearly 1,000 bags of fire oil from the sandwich compartments of the two ships.

Rao is Chai Shao is a generous and sleek person, he finally couldn't help it, he ordered someone to find Lu Zushang and a dozen other senior officers guarding Jiangling, pointed to a pile of oil bags and angrily reprimanded them: "You say that you don't dare to dispose of the materials in the ship without authorization, I can understand it, but how can you explain to me the fire oil in these ships?" Burning more than 300 warships, isn't the lesson deep enough? ”

More than a dozen senior generals lowered their heads, no one dared to say anything, Lu Zushang stepped forward and said in a deep voice: "General, we did search the ship before, except for food and forage, we found no other items, because considering that it may be necessary to exchange prisoners of war with the Sui army, so the materials on the ship were not unloaded, I really didn't expect that there was fire oil hidden in it, and after the fire burned the ship, it has not been extinguished, I originally wanted to wait until it was completely extinguished before moving it into the city, and it happened that the general came at this time." ”

"You mean to say that I didn't come in time to delay your supplies, right?" Chai Shao said coldly.

Lu Zushang lowered his head, "Don't dare to be lowly, this is the responsibility of lowly duty." ”

"Humph! It's your responsibility again, General Lu, you have too much responsibility to bear, and I don't dare to punish you, you say, what can I do? ”

Lu Zushang's heart was gloomy, so he had to sigh secretly and said: "I beg the general to remove me from the post of Jiangling general." ”

Chai Shao's face darkened, and a sentence came out between his teeth. "I'm sorry, my official is lowly and made General Gangneung laugh."

After speaking, he turned around and left angrily, Lu Zushang looked at him and walked away, not understanding what he meant, and a general next to him reminded: "General." Except for King Jing, no one else has the right to remove you from your position as General Jiangling, and your words of dismissal are a bit sarcastic. Offended him. ”

Lu Zushang was stunned, is it so easy to offend people? He suddenly felt a kind of emaciation, and it was too difficult for him to deal with these high-ranking officials. offends people at every turn, and it is to offend Chai Shao, the most powerful horse master today, he can't help but sigh for a long time......

Chai Shao went to see the wreckage for a while, and then rode towards the general's city, and just walked into the city gate, a general waiting by the city gate stepped forward and said: "General Chai, I have something to say about my humble position." ”

Chai Shao knew that this person was Lu Zushang's deputy general Liu Fangzhi, so he asked coldly, "What's the matter with you?" ”

Liu Fangzhi took another step forward and said in a low voice: "General, Lu Zu is still suspected of collaborating with the enemy. ”

Chai Shao frowned. He took a deep look at Liu Fangzhi, this is Lu Zushang's lieutenant general, the second person in Jiangling City, and he actually said that Lu Zushang collaborated with the enemy?

"Come to my room and say it!"

Chai Shao whipped his horse violently and galloped towards the city. Liu Fangzhi looked at Chai Shao's back, couldn't help but smile, and said to himself, "Lu Zushang, you actually want to use my head to sacrifice the flag to see who killed whom...... Chai Shao's residence is the palace of Xiao Milling in the past. The palace has been demolished as a prohibition, but the palace is still there, covering an area of forty acres, with green trees, pavilions and pavilions hidden in red flowers and green leaves, jīng is abnormal, which is very in line with Chai Shao's heart, this time his wife Li Xiuning was also going to follow, but because of poor health, he stayed in Chang'an.

Chai Shao walked directly into the guest hall and sat down, and after a while, a personal soldier brought Liu Fangzhi in, and Liu Fangzhi knelt down on one knee and saluted, "See the general!" ”

Chai Shao took a sip of the teacup and said lightly: "Don't be so polite, if you have something to say, get up and say!" ”

"Yes!"

Liu Fangzhi stood up and said: "Let's first say that on the night of the big ship's fire, because some soldiers saw that it was the Sui army spies who set the fire, but that night it was Lu Zushang's henchman Zhao Lan who was on duty on the periphery of the water village, but he didn't find anything. ”

"This is normal, it is so dark, it is difficult to find the enemy, and in case it is from the shore, it is even more impossible for him to find out, it is a bit far-fetched to say that Lu Zushang collaborated with the enemy!"

Although Chai Shao doesn't like Lu Zushang, he won't frame him for no reason, the key is that at this time, Chai Shao doesn't want to mess up, otherwise even if he can't remove Lu Zushang, he will let Li Xiaogong depose, this face Li Xiaogong can't give himself, so he is noncommittal to Liu Fangzhi's accusation.

Liu Fangzhi sighed, "General, I didn't accuse him of collaborating with the enemy for no reason, because he did tell the people around him more than once that he should not surrender to the Tang Dynasty, he said that his grandfather was originally also the Fan Yang Lu clan, and now the Fan Yang Lu clan is serving in the Sui Dynasty, and he will have a better future if he surrenders to the Sui Dynasty, and he also said to his generals twice that the Tang Dynasty has gone to the general trend, and those who know the times should return to the Sui Dynasty, and this time Yang Yuanqing personally marched south, which is a good opportunity." ”

"Did he really say that?" Chai Shao asked with some disbelieving.

Liu Fangzhi knelt down, pointed to his heart and said, "I, Liu Fangzhi, am willing to swear by my ancestors and ancestors, if there is half a lie, my ancestors will not be able to live in peace in the heavenly spirits." ”

This can be said to be the most vicious oath in the Sui Dynasty, no one will easily swear by their ancestors, in fact, Liu Fangzhi did not lie, Lu Zushang did say these words, but he couldn't let go of Li Xiaogong's kindness to him, so he didn't surrender to the Sui army.

Chai Shao's face sank, since he swore like this, he had to believe it if he didn't believe it, he slowly paced around the room with his hands behind his back, his eyes flashed with anger, Lu Zushang actually had a reaction, which surprised him.

Liu Fangzhi felt that Chai Shao believed his words, and also felt the anger in his heart, he couldn't help but be secretly proud in his heart, and said: "There is one more thing to report, I want to report it." ”

"Say it! What else? ”

"There is also the fact that when intercepting the grain ship, we captured more than 200 Sui soldiers, Lu Zushang was very generous to these soldiers, treated their wounds, ate and lived very well, and the conditions were much better than those of the Tang soldiers, and the Tang soldiers were not allowed to abuse the prisoners of war, and they were not even allowed to scold, and they were thinking that if they were Sui officers, maybe he wanted to persuade the other party to surrender, but these were ordinary pawns. Is this necessary? The humble position inferred that he didn't want to offend Sui Jun and leave a way back for himself. ”

"How can there be such a thing?" Chai Shao had already begun to be visibly angry.

"If the general doesn't believe it, I can take the general to check it out in person, and more than 200 Sui troops will be placed in the post house in the south of the city."

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of 'Dang! While! While! The bell rings. The voice was loud, as if it was coming from the direction of the city, and Liu Fangzhi's face changed. "General, this is the jǐng newspaper of the enemy attack!"

Chai Shao was also taken aback, and he didn't care about pursuing Lu Zushang's willingness to join the enemy at this time. Walking briskly towards the outside of the house, "What's going on?" He asked aloud.

A soldier rushed to report, "General, the Sui army fleet is here!" ”

Chai Shao's heart twitched, he thought of the 50,000 troops stationed in the north of the city, if the situation was critical, transfer them into the city first, he didn't care about Liu Fangzhi, turned over his horse, and ran towards the city with his own soldiers...... At this time on the river. More than 100 huge warships appeared, all of which were 10,000 stone sea ships, several zhang high and more than ten zhang long, and the bow was wrapped with iron armor. Like a huge beast, the towering masts soared into the sky, and the huge sails hung diagonally, rushing towards the water village.

Although the main warships of the Tang army have been burned, there are still more than 200 small boats, each of which carries more than a dozen people. Shuttling back and forth under the huge warship, it is very flexible, but it does not play any role, and if you are not careful, you will be knocked over by the Sui warship.

More than 20 small boats were piled up at the gate of the water village, trying to prevent the Sui warships from entering the water village.

The warship mercilessly crashed into more than two dozen small boats, the huge waves surged, more than a dozen small boats were knocked over, and the soldiers of the Tang Army fell into the water one after another, and there was a wail.

The warship crashed into the walled gate, the bow of the iron armor smashed the walled gate, and the huge warship rushed straight into the water village, followed by the second and third, and the big ship behind did not pass through the walled gate, directly broke the wooden stake inserted in the water, and rampaged into the Tang army water village.

The wooden piles of the Tang Army's water village can resist the impact of a 3,000-stone ship at most, which is the carrying capacity of an ordinary inland river warship, but in any case, it cannot withstand the impact of a 10,000-stone sea ship.

On the dock, thousands of crossbow troops were already ready to line up, Lu Zushang bit his lip and stared at the Sui warship approaching, at this time, a general pointed to the pile of fire oil leather bags on the dock and suggested: "General, you can pour fire oil into the river and set fire to the enemy ship." ”

Lu Zushang had already thought of it, but he was a little worried, because in this way, it was likely that more than 100 grain ships would be burned with him, which General Chai was going to use to carry troops across the river, if it was burned, there would really be no ships to cross the river, and civilian ships would not be able to collect it.

"General Lu, there is no way, the Sui army is here to destroy the grain fleet." His generals saw through the attempts of the Sui warships.

Lu Zushang looked at the grain ships that had been unloaded, he also thought that the purpose of the Sui army was to destroy the ships, rather than the grain ships being destroyed, it was better to take a risk, maybe they could burn a few Sui warships, he gritted his teeth and ordered: "The small boat will attack with fire oil and burn the Sui warships!" ”

The soldiers loaded bags full of fire oil onto the boats, and more than a dozen small boats were loaded with fire oil, each of which was carried by three or four soldiers, leaving the dock and heading for the Sui army's big ship.

On the warship of the Sui army, the experienced Lai Hong had already seen the Tang army's boat approaching, and also saw the oil leather bag in the boat, which came just in time, and he sneered and said: "Bow and arrow shè hit!" ”

Dense soldiers appeared on both sides of the boat for a while, stretching their bows and arrows, not waiting for the Tang army boat to approach, the stormy arrows shè towards the boat, the boat had nowhere to hide, the Tang soldiers could only raise their shields to resist, but they could not stop the dense rain of arrows, and for a moment, the Tang soldiers screamed and fell into the water.

There was no one in the dozen or so boats full of fire oil, the arrows shè wore leather bags, and the black pulp of fire oil flowed all over the boats, and Lai Hong ordered again, "The water ghosts get off the boat and introduce the boat into the grain ship!" ”

More than 100 water ghosts jumped off the big boat, pushed the small boat in the water and sailed into the middle of the dense grain carriers, they turned on the small boat, sprayed all the fire oil shè in the water, the fire oil gradually connected on the river surface, more than 100 grain ships seemed to be soaked in the fire oil.

The bell rang on the big ship, and the water ghosts jumped into the water and fled, struggling to escape from the fire oil area, and at this moment, a rocket tied with an oilcloth came out of the big boat far away and landed on the river, 'Boom! With a bang, a sea of fire suddenly broke out on the river, engulfing more than 100 grain ships...... To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )RQ